Young women in sewing class at Simmons University with instructors. The chalkboard has instructions for proper sewing techniques, some of which are "No kind of needle work requires a cramp or stoop position. Have your chair square to a table and...

Young women in sewing class at Simmons University with instructors. Included in the photo is Presisdent C. H. Parrish as well as women identified on the back as Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Crutcher. The university has gone by many names since its...

Young women in a class at Simmons University learning commercial skills such as typing. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute (1879), State University (1883), Simmons...

Yearbook published by students of Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky, 1921-1922. Includes images of the administration, seniors, undergraduates, activities, athletics and a section of Wit, Humor, and Ads. The university has gone by many names...

Yearbook published by students of Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky, 1920-1921. Includes images of the administration, seniors, undergraduates, organizations, activities, athletics and sections titled poetry and wit and humor. Pages are also...

Workers clean up fuel oil leaking out of the back of the University of Louisville College of Education and Human Development (renamed the Woodford R. and Harriett B. Porter Building in September 2010). Photograph was taken in the late afternoon.

Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: title page for "Arithmetic adapted to the course of instruction academies & common schools by P. A. Towne John P. Morton & Co. Publishers Louisville, Ky."; skyline of a river city, with...

Wood F. Axton Hall, part of Simmons University, on Dumesnil Street. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute (1879), State University (1883), Simmons University (1921), Simmons...

Wood F. Axton Hall, part of Simmons University, on Dumesnil Street. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute (1879), State University (1883), Simmons University (1921), Simmons...

Women's dining room, Nazareth College, Louisville, Kentucky, 1924. Features a huge ornate mirror over a fireplace, dark walls, and a table with curved wood chairs, a plant on top, and a chandelier above. On back of image: "Young Ladies Dining...

William Pollitt McClain was born in 1849 in Henderson, Kentucky. He attended Notre Dame College, graduating in 1869. He then attended the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in 1872. After practicing law in Missouri, he...

William Murphy Reed, of Benton, Kentucky, was born in 1848, in Graves County, Kentucky. He acquired his education in Benton Seminary, of Marshall County, Kentucky, and in Princeton College. He read law with Philander Palmer, of Benton, Kentucky,...

William Morgan Beckner was born in 1841 in Moorefield, in Nicholas County, Kentucky. He attended the schools of Bath and Fleming counties, before attending Centre College in Danville. He read law under Judge E. C. Phister and was admitted to the...

William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...